Friday, November 8, 2013

Rating The Written Word (or Shakespeare?)

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I read.

I read a lot.

Thanks must be given to my mother and father who always encouraged me to examine the written word in both fictional and non-fictional accounts. While I have engaged in guilty pleasures of the page, and still do, I believe I have also honed an exacting taste for literature.

That being said, opinions may vary, tastes are acquired, and not every book or author is necessarily a good fit for the ships of imagination that sail through ones mind. I have been told from childhood of the magnificence of William Shakespeare, but with two exceptions (Richard III and Much Ado About Nothing), I find him dreadful. Dan Brown is also popular (especially among my fellow Masonic Brothers), but he too I find boring.

For my sensibilities, Mark Twain and Washington Irving are far and away the best authors of fiction.

Bear that in mind that when I review a book. It might make more sense to know where my ships of imagination find harbor.

-Brent

“A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.” - Henry David Thoreau


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